After playing to great acclaim at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, this visually stunning documentary is coming to Seattle. It may be hard to remember now in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but once upon a time, everyone was not “going Green.” EARTH DAYS looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration.

Sustainable Biodiesel
Many biodiesel foes rail about the food vs. fuel. Biodiesel can and is being made sustainably. Many focus on biodiesel made from soy and canola oil. They fail to understand that the crops are grown as animal feed so people can enjoy their steaks and pork chops. The oil is a byproduct of this primary purpose of the crop.

Feedstocks that avoid this controversy completely are waste vegetable oil/tallow, biomass and algae.

Interested in discussing the designer’s role in the sustainability movement? We are launching this roundtable for graphic designers as an open forum where participants can bring an idea to the floor for discussion and learn from other designers how they are practicing sustainable design methods. If you have a great sustainable design project, we would love to hear about it.